Research Catalog

Title

Deer on the high hills : selected poems / Iain Crichton Smith ; edited by John Greening.

Author

Smith, Iain Crichton, 1928-1998

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

Greening, John, 1954-

Description

xvi, 306 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Carcanet classics

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Scotland
• Poetry
• 1900-1999
• Manners and customs
• English poetry > Scottish authors
• English poetry > 20th century > Scottish authors
• Scottish poetry > 20th century
• Scotland > Social life and customs > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Poem of Lewis -- 'Some days were running legs' -- Statement by a Responsible Spinster -- For the Unknown Seamen of the 1939-45 War Buried in Iona Churchyard -- The Window -- Old Woman -- Luss Village -- A Note on Puritans -- Dying is not Setting Out -- Girl with Orange Sunshade -- Sunday Morning Walk -- By Ferry to the Island -- Culloden and After -- A Young Highland Girl Studying Poetry -- From Lilac, Snow and Shadow -- Home -- Deer on the High Hills -- Old Woman -- Two Girls Singing -- Lenin -- The Argument -- Johnson in the Highlands -- The Clearances -- 'It is the old' -- At the Firth of Lorne -- The Law and the Grace -- Hume -- Rythm -- Encounter in a School Corridor -- The Chess Player -- Envoi -- The Departing Island -- Returning Exile -- She Teaches Lear -- Hamlet -- At the Sale -- 'What's your Success?' -- 'Children, follow the dwarfs' -- Return to the Council House -- Duncan Ban MacIntyre -- From Homage to George Orwell -- I Build an Orange Church -- Old Woman with Flowers -- From World War One -- Hear us, 0 Lord -- Shall Gaelic Die? -- For John Maclean, Headmaster, and Classical and Gaelic Scholar -- Dear Hamlet -- How often I feel like you -- From Russian Poem -- For Keats -- Gaelic Songs -- In the Chinese Restaurant -- Give Me Your Hand -- Christmas, 1971 -- In the Time of the Useless Pity -- Everything Is Silent -- This Goodbye -- 'You told me once' -- On Looking at the Dead -- 'Of the uncomplicated dairy girl' -- At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival -- Jean Brodie's Children -- If You Are About to Die Now -- From The White Air of March -- From Orpheus -- Eight Songs for a New Ceilidh -- When We Were Young -- Freud -- The White Swan -- For Derick Thomson -- On a Beautiful Day -- The Stone -- Raven -- Gaelic Stories -- The Days are Passing -- The TV -- In the Glen -- My Uncle -- The Workmen -- Chinese Poem -- From The Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe -- In the Surgery -- In Sleep -- Waiting for a Letter -- When Day is Done -- The Scream -- The Nose -- In the Middle -- The Whirligigs of Time -- None Is the Same as Another -- From My Canadian Uncle -- My Brother -- We Will Walk -- Berries -- When I am Reading -- Returning Exile -- There is no Sorrow -- Next Time -- The Exiles -- When My Poetry Making Has Failed -- Speech for a Woman -- Australia -- No Return -- Reading Shakespeare -- Speech for Prospero -- 'You'll take a bath' -- Bruegel -- Owl and Mouse -- 'Iolaire' -- For Poets Writing in English over in Ireland -- Poem -- The Survivors -- The 'Ordinary' People -- At the Funeral of Robert Garioch -- Who Daily -- Envoi -- From A Life -- From The Village -- Villagers -- Photograph of Emigrants -- Incubator -- The Story -- At the Party -- After the Edinburgh Festival -- Meeting -- Girl and Child -- Poor Artist -- Against Apartheid (II) -- Snow -- Early Spring -- Farewell my Brother -- Listen -- Poetry -- Dogmas -- Come, Fool -- The Will -- The Old Poet -- Sometimes I Remember -- The Well -- Teachers -- Putting out the Ashes -- Hallowe'en -- Macbeth and the Witches -- The Spider -- Welcome -- The Gaelic Proverb -- No Muses -- Milton -- Dream -- Books -- Others -- Autumn -- From The Human Face (1996) -- From The Leaf and the Marble (1998) -- Shorts -- Old Lady -- The Winter Mountains -- Neighbour -- The Voice -- MacDiarmid -- All Day -- The Village -- Children -- Two Worlds -- The Old Men -- Sincerity without Art -- Time to Stop -- The Old Woman -- Parkhead -- For Edwin Morgan -- Old Woman -- Not a Day for Dante -- He Spoke -- The Poet.

Call Number

JFD 22-230

ISBN

• 9781800170940
• 1800170947

OCLC

1242863262

Author

Smith, Iain Crichton, 1928-1998, author.

Title

Deer on the high hills : selected poems / Iain Crichton Smith ; edited by John Greening.

Publisher

Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Carcanet classics

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Greening, John, 1954- editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781800170957

Research Call Number

JFD 22-230